Newton Aycliffe Strategic Place Plan

Help shape Newton Aycliffe town centre's future

We are starting work in Newton Aycliffe with our partner, Urban Foresight to seek your views and ideas about how you would like to see the town develop over the next 10 years. 

We want this plan to be developed with our communities, so its important that you tell us what you would like to see for the future. 

We want to hear from the people who live and work in Newton Aycliffe to help shape the future of your town. We want to understand your thoughts on its strengths and opportunities, what can be improved and what we’d all like Newton Aycliffe to be in the future.  

There are no existing ideas in mind, this vision will be directly shaped by the people of Newton Aycliffe from the very beginning.   

Over the next eight weeks, we will be talking to people in the streets, at transport hubs, bus stops, shopping centres, organising drop-in meetings, listening to children and young people in schools, and visiting community meetings and local organisations to find out people’s thoughts on the town's strengths, opportunities, challenges, and your hopes for its future.  

County Durham has also been identified by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as one of its Heritage Places. Heritage Places is a £200 million initiative aimed at engaging communities and developing partnerships to create possibilities from the heritage in specifically identified areas across the UK. The initiative aims to put heritage at the centre of place based plans to transform local areas, helping to boost local pride and people's connection to their heritage. It will operate across whole places rather than supporting individual projects, encouraging local partners to make heritage at central to their plans to make their local areas better places to live, work and visit and will form part of the work to produce the Shildon and Newton Aycliffe Strategic Place Plans.

See Heritage Fund: Heritage 2033 – our 10-year strategy for more information.

We will use the information gathered from you alongside what we know about the town to develop a draft vision and feed information into the Heritage Place project.

We will then come back and ask you again what you think about the vision and start to draw up plans to help us get there. 

The boundary map shows the Newton Aycliffe town centre boundary. The map is bounded by Burn Lane to the North, comes South West along Central Avenue, heads North West up Stephenson Way and returns up Greenwell Road. It also includes some of the areas linked to the town centre and which will have an influence on the Vision.

We want to know if you think we have missed any important areas which should be included in the map.

Complete our survey to enter into a free prize draw for a £100 One4All gift card. You will see the terms and conditions and privacy notice at the end of the survey.

Below shows what will happen during the project at each stage, how you can take part in the online surveys or sign up for a drop in event, and other ways to have your say. The dates for future stages are provision and may change as the project progresses.

For more information visit Newton Aycliffe Strategic Place Plan.

Phase three of this consultation closed on 24 October 2025.

For more information contact CED@durham.gov.uk

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